Interviu cu SELF PROGRAMMED DEAF (Deathcore - Chisinau, Moldova)

SELF PROGRAMMED DEAF este o trupa de deathcore din Chisinau, Moldova formata in 2010.

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BB: Salutare și bine ai venit pe paginile BB
Vick: Bine v-am găsit! Salutare întregii comunități!

BB: Poți face o trecere în revistă despre cum a fost anul 2019 pentru SPD?
Vick: Daca sa vorbim despre concerte putem zice că nu a fost chiar intens, am avut două concerte la Chişinău în primăvara apoi o dublă în România, Ploiești și București, și deja în toamna iarăși acasă concertul cu trupa Shokran. Important pentru noi e faptul că în 2019 am schimbat procesul de lucru în cadrul trupei, am reușit să ne organizăm studioul nostru propriu, fapt care ne-a mobilizat și în sfârșit am reușit să ne ocupăm de înregistrarea materialului acumulat. În același timp am creat cateva piese noi, btw unele din ele le veți auzi la concertul din 22 ianuarie.

BB: Știu ca ați început sa lucrați în studio. Oferă-ne mai multe detalii in legatură cu materialul pe care urmează să-l lansați.
Vick: Din păcate 2019 sa terminat pe o nota cam proastă - studioul nostru a fost inundat grav fapt care a frânat considerabil procesul și materialul înregistrat care consta din 8 piese, este la moment în etapa de mixare.

BB: Ce planuri aveţi pentru 2020?
Vick: În primul rand trebuie să ne clarificăm cu studioul, suntem nevoiți să găsim altă încăpere și s-o amenajam. Deja după asta vom finisa albumul și vom face merch nou legat de conceptul lui. Totodată vom planifica un turneu în susținerea lui. Referitor la concerte avem la moment câteva propuneri din care unele deja le-am acceptat iar altele le analizăm. Toate le vom anunța pe parcurs.

BB: Aveţi schiţata vreo idée sau direcţie muzicală a unui nou material discografic?
Vick: Cum ziceam, avem deja câteva piese noi, și o direcție conceptuală pentru următorul album. Dorim sa reprezinte starea, emoțiile și greutățile pe care le avem în etapa actuală, care e plina de schimbări și căutări.

BB: Care sunt cele mai mari probleme sau piedici pe care le intalniţi in activitatea voastă muzicală?
Vick: Una din greutăți consta în faptul de a balansa timpul, fiecare avem joburi și alte ocupații personale și e important să ținem activitatea muzicală în prioritate pentru a progresa. Ce ține de piedici aș putea menționa lipsa unor spații bine amenajate pentru concerte, lipsa accesului la instrumente calitative în Moldova, chiar și posibilitățile financiare.

BB: Pe 22 ianuarie veți cânta pe aceeași scena cu trupa engleză Ingested. Ce emoţii şi ce așteptări aveți de la acest concert?
Vick: Emoțiile sunt doar pozitive și suntem siguri că va fi un măcel de care ne vom aduce aminte mult timp. Așteptam atât fețe noi în public cât și să revedem vechile cunoștințe și prieteni din comunitate şi desigur ne vom rupe și noi la maxim sub muzica trupei Ingested.

BB: Care sunt top 5 albume lansate in 2019 care te-au impresionat?
Vick: Foarte greu...Avem gusturi diverse și ar fi imposibil sa facem un top 5 pe placul tuturor, de aia vom menționa fiecare câte un album din 2019 care ne-a marcat.
Eugene: Born of Osiris - The Simulation
Alina: Periphery: Periphery IV: Hail Stan
Vick: Cattle Decapitation: Death Atlas
Ca să fie 5 putem să mai menționăm Car Bomb: Mordial și Whitechapel: The Valley

BB: Transmite un mesaj tuturor care ne citesc.
Vick: Susțineți muzica care vă place în general, support your local bands în particular, implicați-vă, fiți activi și țineți cont că de voi, ascultătorii, depinde mult scena locală, amploarea, numărul și diversitatea evenimentelor!
Stay brutal, keep hydrated, don’t eat yellow snow and at last but not the least - send nudes :)

Nu uitati, pe 22 ianuarie trupa Self Programmed Deaf va concerte la Chisinau alaturi de Need4Speed si Ingested [UK] @Bandabar

Interviu cu NEED4SPEED (Brutal Death / Grind - Chisinau, Moldova)

Need4Speed este o trupa de brutal death / grindcore din Chisinau. Grupul a luat fiinta in 2004 in calitate de side project a doua din cele mai reprezentative trupe din scena brutal death / grind din acea vreme - Emphatological Necroticism si Abnormyndeffect.

BB: Salutare si bine ai venit pe paginile Brutal Basarabia!
Liviu: Salut, si bine v-am gasit!

BB: Cum a fost anul 2019 pentru Need4Speed?
Liviu: 2019 a fost un an greu pentru noi. Am avut multe schimbari, tot in legatura cu asta, am decis sa revenim la proiectul initial need4speed. Acum sintem intr-o componenta stabila, fapt ce ne bucura desigur, dar inca mai avem mult de lucru.

BB: Pe parcursul ultimilor cativa ani ati avut mai multe schimbari de componenta. Cum v-ati adaptat la noua componenta si in ce masura a fost influentata muzica/sunetul in sine? 

Liviu: Intr-adevar, need4speed are o istorie bogata in schimbari de componenta, si toate din cauza plecarii membrilor peste hotare. In 2018 a plecat tobosarul Stefan Babara, atunci ne-am reformat putin si Costea a trecut la tobe iar la voce a venit Iura Grom. Asa a aparut Controversy, un proiect in care am readus mai multe piese preistorice inca din perioada Emphotalogical Necroticism dar intr-o forma mai proaspata, cu elemente de punk si grind. In 2019 pleaca Costea, si in locul lui vine Sergey Sonor. Sergey are o experienta bogata in trupe de metal de la noi, cu gustul firav si tehnica avansata Asa am decis sa revenim la need4speed. Aici avem piese mult mai complicate ca tehnica si variate ca stil: death, brutal si grindcore. Vom continua tot in aceasta directie, poate mai agatam si niste elemente progresive. Cred-ca prin asta si se caracterizeaza need4speed, o combinatie de stiluri.

BB: Pe 22 ianuarie veti canta la Chisinau alaturi de enlgezii de la Ingested si veti merge cu ei in turneu. Ofera-ne detalii despre acest turneu.
Liviu: Da, avem 3 concerte cu Ingested, abia astept sa-i dam o hora cu baetii. Incepem la Bucuresti pe 19, in Quantic. Dupa care mergem la Iasi pe 21 si vom reveni la Chisinau pe 22 unde vom canta alaturi de colegii de breasla din SPD. Ati crezut ca betiile de revelion sau terminat ? Stai ca mai vine una!

BB: Ce planuri aveti pentru 2020?
Liviu: In 2020 obiectivul de baza ramine sa readucem pe scena toate piesele need4speed. Aici avem mult de lucru, cu toate schimbarile care au avut loc. Si daca reusim, poate scoate un EP prin toamna. Turnee mari nu avem planificate deocamdata, poate spre sfarsitul anului vom reusi sa organizam un turneu cu fratii nostri de la Abnormyndeffect. Dar deocamdata e la nivel de ideie.

BB: Lucrati la un nou material discografic? Aveti un concept asupra caruia munciti?
Liviu: Ne-am propus anul acesta sa scoatem un EP experimental, cu piese vechi si noi. Cu toate ca avem material pentru album, avem o ideie sa lansam mai multe EP-uri, fiecare sa contina piesele dintr-o anumita perioada. De exemplu avem piese mostenite din Empathological Necroticism, si eu personal mi-asi dori sa avem un EP dedicat anume acelei perioade, in memoria lui Oleg Visokosov.

BB: Care sunt cele mai mari probleme sau piedici pe care le intalniti in activitatea voasta muzicala?
Liviu: Eu vad cea mai mare problema lipsa localurilor care ar fi deschise pentru concerte underground, fara taxe suplimentare si conditii cosmice. Anul acesta am intles ca se redeschide Albion-ul, si chiar ma bucur ca revine, cel putin o sa avem o alternativa. O alta problema ar fi lipsa de initiativa din partea comunitatii. Traim in perioada in care avem cele mai mari oportunitati de a vedea si aduce trupe mari, si totusi nu avem pentru cine. Exista totusi o mica comunitate care este prezenta la toate concertele (va salut baieti si fete!) that’s our hope. 

BB: Care sunt top 5 albume lansate in 2019 care te-au impresionat?
Liviu: Daca sa-mi aduc aminte cateva albume, cam astea ar fi:
Devourment - Obscene Majesty
BKS - DIY TNT
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Birdflesh - Extreme Graveyard Tornado
Parazitii - Arma secreta

BB: Transmite un mesaj tuturor care ne citesc.
Liviu: Salutare prieteni! Va mutumesc ca sinteti prezenti la evenimente. Multumesc BB pentru promovarea eventului si implicarea in scena underground.
Ne vedem in curind la Ingested, stay brutal si sustineti miscarea!

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Nu uitati, pe 22 ianuarie ii poti vedea live pe Need4Speed alaturi de SPD si Ingested [UK] @Bandabar

Interview with Dead Beat (Experimental Crust/Hardcore band from Athens, Greece)

BB: Hello and welcome to our pages!

Dead Beat: Hello! Thank you for this interview and your support!

BB: How the Dead Beat band has started, give us a short story.

Dead Beat: The band was formed in March 2016 with the purpose to experiment mainly in extreme music such as hardcore, crust, grind etc. We were rehearsing for a short time of period in order to create a bond as a band and at the beginning of May 2016 we started the recordings of “ΠΑΡΑΝΟΙΑ” EP at Feedback Sound Studios. The EP was released a month ago in digital format, free to download by anyone who’s interested in our band.

BB: On may 9th 2018 you have released the first debut release named “ΠΑΡΑΝΟΙΑ” (Paranoia). How was the whole creation process? I’ve noticed that you have added some interesting musical instrument like trombone, trumpet, tsampouna and some different vocals. You knew from the start how the release should sound or it came natural in the composing/recording process?

Dead Beat: The main composing parts were formed individually. However during the recordings we managed to put together what we had in mind right from the beginning; to combine extreme music with all kind of different musical instruments, which usually you don’t encounter in the kind of music we chose to focus. All these instruments gave a completely different touch on the final result of the release which eventually helped us a lot as group but also individually, to realise the true meaning of experimenting. I personally believe that it helped me explore and understand new concepts in music and this motivates me to work and experiment a lot more in the future. 

BB: All these vocals and instruments mentioned above are band members or guest musicians in the band?

Dead Beat: I am glad you asked this question so I have the opportunity to present all the people who contributed to this EP. We consider all of them as members of the band since, as mentioned above, without them the final result would have been completely different. I want to thank them for everything and I wish to work with each and everyone of them again in the future.

Charis. Z. - Trombone, Gregory R. - Vocals, Thalia P. - Vocals, Lambros S. - Vocals, George S. - Vocals, Lina K. - Vocals, Petros K. - Trompet, Dinos Z. - Tsampouna.

BB: All the songs from the album are written in greek, can you please tell us, lyrically what’s the main message of the album? (Or you can tell us the story of one particular song).

Dead Beat: The main subject of the release is the depression, its existence and its various stages while evolving as illness. For example the first song called "Κισσός" (Ivy) describes the rooting and spreading of the illness and it is compared to the plant Ivy; the song “Eλπίδα" (Hope) describes the fight that gives someone who is diagnosed and has also personally realised that suffers from this illness (there are many cases that the person diagnosed with depression does not realise nor accepts it which has grave consequences). I personally believe that the depression is one of the worst illnesses worldwide and if you fight it effectively then in some cases can be positive results; for example the person who suffers could eventually gain something positive during this painful process [this is mentioned in the song "Σκοτάδι" (Darkness)]. I would also like to mention that this release is dedicated to the souls of all the children who have been victims of war; a thing which is implicitly related with the theme of the release.

BB: Dead Beat is a side project band? Because as I know some of you are playing in some different bands.

Dead Beat: No, Dead Beat was formed as a band and not a side project and the reason we formed it is, as mentioned previously, to experiment. Moreover, aside of knowing each other for a long time, we also play in other bands together (with the guitarist we play together in Slavebreed, with the bassist we play in Tantalum, etc.). So there would be no meaning in playing something that we already play in our other bands. Allow me also to mention that the drums are recorded by a good friend, Vangelis F. (Chaotic End, Paroxismos) however from now on our new drummer is going to be Adde M. (Birdflesh, General Surgery).

BB: “ΠΑΡΑΝΟΙΑ” will be released on cd’s/vynils any time soon? Have you tried to release your album via some webzines or some labels?

Dead Beat: There is a plan to release this EP in physical format however nothing is sure yet regarding to when. A number of labels and distros were offered to release it in tape and vinyl however the time was passing and nothing really happened since the songs were long ago recorded. The initial plan was to release it through my distro (Noise Attack) however the cost was high (along with the costs of recording, mixing and mastering). So for the time being I chose to upload it on bandcamp so anyone interested can download it gratis (https://deadbeatexperimental.bandcamp.com/releases).

BB: I know that you’re playing guitar in Slavebreed too. Your last album “Dethrone the Architect” was released in 2012 and the last release was a split with Birdflesh out in 2015. Should we expect a new release this year?

Dead Beat: We are currently on the preproduction of a new release, after a long period of time as you also mentioned. Unfortunately we do not have a specific deadline since along the way we may encounter difficulties, or ideas can change etc. For example at the beginning we started working on a new EP, however we ended up working on a complete new release.

BB: Do you have any final words for our readers?

Dead Beat: Thank you for the interest you showed and your support! Unfortunately I have never been to your country, however I hope to visit you next year! See you!

Official links:

DEAD BEAT on facebook

DEAD BEAT on bandcamp

Interview with Mark "Barney" Greenway (Napalm Death)

BB: Hello and welcome to Moldova.
Mark: Hello and thank you.

BB: Napalm death has been together for 37 years now, it’s quite a long time. Looking back how would you describe this journey and what’s the secret of the longevity?
Mark: It’s a microcosm of life itself so there’s been many good, sometimes bad, sometimes average experiences, but it’s been something that 99% of people will never do, so for that we have to be thankful and of course to be able to make music like napalm death with your own ideas is great, it’s not something to be taken easily, it’s a very big thing actually.

BB: As a band, you have an impressive amount of releases over the years. From where do you get the inspiration and what drives you to go on?
Mark: We just seem to have the impetus to carry on. Of course there are days when it’s not such fun for various reasons but generally speaking we always have inspiration and we seem to get results for ourselves that make it worthwhile in terms of creativity, that pushes you forward. In the 90s was difficult for the genre so what we decided that we wanted to just carry on and we did, when not so many people were turning up for concerts, then we decided: let’s just carry on, a lot of bands went but we stayed. 

BB: Regarding the napalm death’s lyrics, the human and animal rights is an important subject to you. Do you think that the perception and the awareness of the society about it has been changed over the past 20 years?
Mark: I think there’s a lot more recognition now. The animals are sentient beings , of course they are, it’s obvious but I think there’s a lot more realization that you wouldn’t behave to human beings the way human beings behave sometimes to animals. So what’s the difference? Ok they can’t communicate in the same way that we can but they certainly have the nervous systems on their ability to feel pain, we know this.

BB: Punk is a big lyrically and musically influence for you. What does punk culture mean to you?
Mark: Well it means being free to express ideas and choosing making your own choices, not being told by somebody else what to do or how to style the band. Independent thought is always our kind of goal. Also then music, punk music, hardcore punk from the mid 80s to late 80s.

BB: I’ve noticed that you do really enjoy the live shows. Despite the long tours and the tiredness you put a lot of energy on the stage. How important are live performances to you?
Mark: My attitude is : you’ve got to make it the best it can be. If you don’t - you’re cheating the people that coming, because people don’t have to come and pay to see a concert though, they can go and do something else, so surely you make it as good as you can.

BB: How the WINTER ASSAULT TOUR is going so far?
Mark: The Winter Assault Tour has been great, Eastern Central Europe it’s been fun, Czech which we’ve done many times, Ukraine, now here in Chisinau, after Romania and then to finish off in Hungary. 

BB: What are the Napalm Death’s plans for the near future?
Mark: We’re still working on next album, next studio album that will come when it comes and then we got just some touring lined up before the end of the year.

BB: Have you ever imagined how would your life have been if you were not a part of napalm death?
Mark: Well I started off as an engineer that’s what I was doing in car industry so probably would have done that until machines took over the jobs.. but there are many things, I’ve always been a person that in life I feel that I want to do several different things, not just one thing so whenever napalm death is over for me or maybe the other guys then I will look to do something else...

BB: Can you recommend to our readers a few of your favourite books?
Mark: I actually read a lot of soviet history, that’s my favorite subject, well that’s what I want to do…I would love to be like a historian soviet, you know, academically. There’s one on North Korea that I’m reading right now, which examines the psychology of North Korea, not necessarily the thing that everybody already thinks that they know but the psychology, what makes people that way, I can’t remember the name of the book I must be honest. I read a "Mitrokhin Archive" which is actually a book of KGB, all the agents that were in the KGB are all listed in this book. There’s a book called "Stasiland" which is about East Germany, which is more light, less technical details but more about the experience of living in East Germany during the soviet era which is pretty interesting. It’s more aimed at casual readers, it’s not a very cold history book but it’s really good read actually.

BB: Do you have any final words for those who will read our intervierw?
Mark: Thanks, it’s nice to be in Moldova, thanks to people supporting us and I realized that this concert happen because several people got together and it’s actually quite humbling to discover that.